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A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed : consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times

by: Ayscough, Samuel, 1745-1804

Publication date: 1782

Topics: Manuscripts -- Great Britain -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: London : Printed for the compiler, by John Rivington, Jun., St. John's Square, Clerkenwell

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Volume: v. 2

Item Size: 1.2G

2 v. ; 30 cm. (fol.)

"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler"--Dict. nat. biog

I. Theology. Ecclesiastical history. History. Commerce. Arts. Mathematics. Astronomy. Philosophy. Chemistry -- II. Medicine. Natural history. Voyages. Grammars, &c. Literary history. Biography. Letters. Poetry. Judicial astrology. Magic. Miscellaneous. Mss. in Icelandic, and Oriental languages -- Index I: of the numbers of the volumes [i.e. the numbers of the manuscripts] -- Index II: of the names which occur in the catalogue

Contents.-I.Theology. Ecclesiastical history. History. Commerce. Arts. Mathematics. Astronomy. Philosophy. Chemistry.-II. Medicine. Natural history. Voyages. Grammars, & c. Literary history. Biography. Letters. Poetry. Judicial astrology. Magic. Miscellaneous. Mss. in Icelandic and Oriental languages. Index I: of the numbers of the volumes (i.e. the numbers of the manuscripts) Index II: of the names which occur in the catalogue